Google Wins Cookie Privacy Lawsuit
…or loss. The court also says that (1) any unauthorized access was not “without permission” as this term is used under section 502, and (2) Google did not introduce a…
California’s New Law Shows It’s Not Easy To Regulate Revenge Porn (Forbes Cross-Post)
California enacted a new law against “revenge” porn, sometimes called “involuntary” porn. SB 255, codified as California Penal Code 647(j)(4). The law says it is “disorderly conduct” for a defendant…
Presentation About the Problems of Online Trespass to Chattels
…computer crime laws like California Penal Code Sec. 502. As I outline in that post, I don’t think nibbling around the edges with CFAA reform is very helpful. Instead, I…
California’s Latest Effort To Keep Some Ads From Reaching Kids Is Misguided And Unconstitutional (Forbes Cross-Post)
California recently enacted SB 568 (Business & Professions Code 22580) to prevent certain types of online advertising from being shown to kids. Like so many other state efforts to regulate…
California’s New ‘Online Eraser’ Law Should Be Erased (Forbes Cross-Post)
…posts they made as youths. The California legislature thought it had a better solution for this problem and enacted a law, SB 568 (California Business & Professions Code Sec. 22581),…
Craigslist Wins Routine But Troubling Online Trespass to Chattels Ruling in 3Taps Case (Catch-up Post)
…things, violations of the Computer Fraud & Abuse Act (CFAA) and California’s computer crime law, CA Penal Code 502. In this ruling, the court denies 3Taps’ motion to dismiss. There…
Blasting Your Landlord Online? Pick Your Words Wisely (Forbes Cross-Post)
…more (units 1001, 902, 802, 801, 702, 701, 602, 502) in very short order. Notice how they cleared-out all the upper-floor units, so they could charge higher rents? They have…
Another Spam Litigation Factory Unravels –- Beyond Systems v. Kraft
…own hurt has no right to complain”. (Apparently traced back to Aristotle, Roman law, and Justinian’s code.) Citing to Judge Gould’s concurrence in Virtumundo, the court says the “undisputed facts…
2013 Internet Law Syllabus and Casebook Now Online
…Failed In Court and Left Zappos Legally Naked 83 IV. Trespass/Computer Fraud & Abuse Act Review: the Computer Fraud & Abuse Act, 18 USC §1030 [http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/1030], and California Penal Code…
H1 2013 Quick Links, Part 4 (Miscellaneous)
By Eric Goldman and Jake McGowan CFAA/Trespass * My colleague Kyle Graham traces the early history of California Penal Code Sec. 502. * Andrew Sellars on the Aaron Schwartz prosecution…